Education Quotes (611 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Mark Twain
„Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.“
― Mark Twain ―
Picture of quotation author Nancy Astor
„Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.“
― Nancy Astor ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Berg
„Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.“
― Paul Berg ―
Picture of quotation author Douglas Hurd
„Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.“
― Douglas Hurd ―
Picture of quotation author Albio Sires
„Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.“
― Albio Sires ―
Picture of quotation author Lisa Loeb
„I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.“
― Lisa Loeb ―
Picture of quotation author Jim Hunt
„In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.“
― Jim Hunt ―
Picture of quotation author Mary J. Blige
„When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.“
― Mary J. Blige ―
Picture of quotation author Lamar Alexander
„I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.“
― Lamar Alexander ―
Picture of quotation author Arthur Ashe
„We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.“
― Arthur Ashe ―
Picture of quotation author Jenny Eclair
„I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.“
― Jenny Eclair ―
Picture of quotation author Jessye Norman
„Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.“
― Jessye Norman ―
Picture of quotation author Hosea Ballou
„Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.“
― Hosea Ballou ―
Picture of quotation author Madhuri Dixit
„Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.“
― Madhuri Dixit ―
Picture of quotation author Nicole Polizzi
„I have an education, I went to college, you know?“
― Nicole Polizzi ―
Picture of quotation author Kristy Swanson
„Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.“
― Kristy Swanson ―
Picture of quotation author Bobby Jindal
„In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.“
― Bobby Jindal ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Young
„We know you are enslaved when you are in a democracy without the right to vote, but when you are in a free enterprise system, in capitalism, without equal access to capital, we still have problems. Equal access to capital means equal access also to education and employment opportunity, so we still have a long way to go on Martin Luther King's dream.“
― Andrew Young ―
Picture of quotation author Victor Hugo
„He who opens a school door, closes a prison.“
― Victor Hugo ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel Goleman
„My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.“
― Daniel Goleman ―

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